104 Mr. R. Spruce on the Musci and Hepatica of the Pyrenees. 



It was my intention to have given here a comparative view of 

 the distribution of Musci and Hepaticse in the Pyrenees and in 

 the other great mountain-ranges of the worlds as also with that 

 of our own islands, but this introduction has already swelled to 

 a tedious length, and 1 hasten to close it with a few general 

 observations. 



As there are certain flowering-plants which accompany the 

 habitations of men and of cattle from the plains nearly to the tops 

 of the mountains, namely, in the Pyrenees, nettles, mallows and 

 docks {Rumex Patientia) ; so there are likewise certain mosses 

 which cling with equal tenacity to these traces of civilization. 



